Trailer: Alexander Rybak on "Pame Paketo" Greek show, 13.10.2011, 20:00 CET

AGE: 23 years.

PROFESSION: Musician / artist.

FAMILY: Single.

LIVES: Nesodden, outside Oslo.

LIKES 1: Jazz, classical, pop. And film.


LIKES 2: “I like when girls touch my upper body when we speak.”

CURRENT: The CD Funny little world.

IDOL: Gene Kelly (because he was such a versatile artist).

FAVORITE MUSCLE: arms and chest.

He lifts his violin, grabs his bow and – bang! The show is running. Gym instructor Alexander whirls, jumps, kneels down. Every muscle is about to explode. Calves, thighs, stomach, back – everything is trimmed at Friskis & Svettis in Oslo.

Alexander Rybak, 23 – the fiddler...

The flying Norwegian

From “To Vima” newspaper 26/7/2009


Greek tabloid journalists used to call him bad names. But Alexander Rybak is just the opposite of what they said. He visited our country to promote his work, and he proved that all these people who were “digging a tomb” for him [idiomatic expression for defamation], are the ones who should be buried into this hole!

“You are too expressive. You shouldn’t smile so much”. That’s what the judge of a Norwegian talent show told him, after he rejected him. Alexander’s mistake then was that he didn’t bring his violin with him....